Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or telephone 869-0630. This weekJazz pianist David Paquette: Tairawhiti Museum, Sunday (2pm) $25 (limited tickets, available from the museum).St Andrew’s lunchtime concert...

Lady Gaga has pulled together top artists for a one-off concert to support coronavirus response efforts. Available now online, the One World: Together at Home concert presents hours of music performed by artists such as The Rolling Stones (pictured)...

Head north by northwest to Unity Theatre, Ormond Road, on Sunday at 3pm for auditions for the Gina Ferkins-directed production of playwright Joe Landry’s Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play. Multiple parts are available that include action scenes...

A successful collaboration of food, art and culture put Tairawhiti on the map in Singapore recently. Kim Parkinson talks to the talented people behind it . . .Gisborne made a culinary statement in Singapore last month with a Flavours of New Zealand...

Gisborne fashion designer Julie Puddick has gone from designing in a coffee shop to needing bigger and bigger spaces, as her Japanese-inspired designs get picked up by fashion houses in the nation's capital. She talked to Aaliyah Rogan about her...

Lowe Street can hold its head high with the addition of a new mural, which brings volume and colour to the walls of The Spellbound Wax Company. Local artist Kahurangi Ngata was in town for a summer spell after gaining a certificate at Whitecliffe...

Dah d-d-daaah. Everyone is familiar with the opening bars to Ludwig van Beethoven’s 5th symphony but the German composer and pianist’s 1807 work, Mass in C major is not so well known. Beethoven’s Mass in C, Op. 86 was overshadowed by later...

Talk about “nobody's child” . . . it was easy to see why he had been overlooked. This undersized oddity was hardly a paragon of horseflesh. It was an impression backed up by all those who had looked at the laid-back four-year-old, then looked...

Saturday, September 5Final night, Death of a Salesman, Unity clubrooms, 209 Ormond Road, 7.30pm, $20. The Supper Dance Crew, community dancing, no partners or experience necessary. September's spotlight is on barn dances, with our own live band. Holy...

Few people can claim to have a PhD but even fewer can claim to have written theirs in te reo Māori. Maria Wynyard is not there yet but last year started the long road to the highest qualification in education. Her doctoral thesis expands on her...

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The job of an actor is to play someone else. But if you are an 11-year-old actor asked to play a father identifying their dead son, you may be assigned an impossible task. Unless you are Tyler Thomas, who scored 98/100 in his Trinity College exam in...

Watties and Gisborne weather are part inspirations for two-piece Gisborne act Spaghetti Toast who celebrate the release of their debut EP on Saturday. Ben Wilkinson of the Wilkinson and Liam Ryan duo cites influences from across the pop-rock eras ob...

Over the summer, don’t pass on the few chores that will lead your orchard to abundant and high-quality harvests. Just a few hours care and your fruit trees will thrive

On this leg of Phil and Sue Newdick’s journey of the largest nation in the world, they travel from Chita to Novosibirsk, discovering more about Mother Russia as they go. Novosibirsk: this was our last stop before Moscow and with 1.5 million people...

Queen by New Zealand playwright Sam Brooks, Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Agatha Christie's whodunnit The Mousetrap, and She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen are lined up for Evolution Theatre Company's play...

TO call one of Shakespeare’s darkest plays good fun is possibly not done but Unity Theatre’s production of Macbeth is just that. The supernatural undercurrents, the psychological depth and the horror are all there but so is the joy of watching...

Swiss-Kiwi electro-folk artist Sonic Delusion brings his pop-drenched, funky and folk looped beats from his upcoming album Anything Goes. After more than 10 years in the business Andre Manella still digs the challenge of building up a song in front...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Mass in C major was not well received by the man who commissioned it when the work was premiered in 1807.“But, my dear Beethoven, what is that you have done again?” said Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy II. The court chapel...

THERE was a bit of argy-bargy in the takeaway drive-in and, wanting to do the right thing, the young man hopped out of his car to deliver a few choice words to the brawlers. At first it seemed to have worked but, after he returned to his vehicle, he...

by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film WriterIn the summer of 1969, the same summer as Woodstock, some of the biggest musical acts of the time, like Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson and the Fifth Dimension all...

Jed SkuseJed Skuse makes his Smash Palace debut tomorrow from 8pm. Free entry. Gisborne Caledonian Society Dance: 69th Birthday CelebrationSocial, modern and sequence dancing with supper and live music by Sheldon's Band. Holy Trinity Church Hall...

It’s fun, it’s educational, it’s Nanogirl’s Out of this World show. Real-life nonscientist Michelle Dickinson (pictured partially obscured on the right in this action-packed picture), otherwise known as Nanogirl, and pyrotechnics specialist...

Party people will be dancing in the moonlight at the annual Full Moon Party. Now in its fifth year, the mini-festival will see drum and bass, house, techno, trance and global bass music take over Smash Palace. Over two outdoor stages, Brazilbeat...

RUST never sleeps and neither do Gisborne and the East Coast’s vintage rockers. Not literally, of course. Less than six hours kip a night would make them crusty in the mornings. But like many well-seasoned musicians from this region, The Karuthers...

A vibrant new show with a definite beachy vibe has opened at Hastings City Art Gallery — Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga. The Path is a joyous celebration of surfing, but that doesn't mean it's a show just for surfers. A wide variety of artists and...

Jane Egan is no one-hit-wonder. The head of music at Gisborne Girls' High School has again been recognised as one of the top music teachers in Aotearoa. For the sixth year running, Recorded Music NZ and Massey University will celebrate the unsung...

Saturday, August 4Gisborne Parkrun. Timed, weekly 5km run or walk, for all abilities. Meet at Waikanae Beach Playground for 8am start. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/course/Gisborne Riding for the Disabled...

A brightly-coloured, ghost-fire-breathing fowl from Japanese mythology has materialised on a Charcoal Chicken wall. But instead of rustling in a bamboo grove only to vanish when looked at, Gisborne artist Maiko Lewis-Whaanga's Fire Rooster is in your...

Jan Clare continues her story about hiking Australia’s Larapinta Trail with her husband Rick